On Sun, 25 Mar 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Oliver Fromme wrote: > > Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > On 2007-03-25 01:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Oliver Fromme wrote: > >>> FreeBSD's UFS2 already uses 96bit timestamps, where 64 bits are used > >>> for seconds and 32 bits are used for nanoseconds. Is that sufficient > >>> for you? > >> What the hell for? > > > > ``Just because it can.'' > > Good. :] 2x64bit for x64?
To measure what? Even at nanosecond resolution, the notion of timestamping an event seems a little arbitrary. Much beyond it and it's not clear exactly what you're "measuring" - or even if there is any physical interpretation. -- jan grant, ISYS, University of Bristol. http://www.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44 (0)117 3317661 http://ioctl.org/jan/ The only certain way to prevent another 9/11 is via universal calendar reform. _______________________________________________ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
